Indoor thermal environment contributes to the comfort of occupants and even affects their
health and well-being. Recent years have witnessed emerging studies on the connection …

Personal comfort systems (PCS) promise individualized thermal comfort, energy-savings
and may even contribute to health by locally heating/cooling specific body segments. To …

Anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlated color temperature (CCT) of light can affect
thermal comfort. Previous literature mostly investigated this effect over a short duration (< 1 …

Abstract Personal Comfort Systems (PCSs) create a localized comfort situation satisfying
individual needs. These devices have low power consumption, as they focus on local …

Phase change cooling vests (CV) are mostly developed to improve people's thermal comfort
in warm or hot environments. In this paper, the effect of a CV on related thermal regulation …

With a contribution of 40% to the annual global CO2-emissions, the built environment needs
to drastically reduce its impact, while also providing pleasant and healthy indoor spaces and …

The emerging “smart grid” paradigm with associated demand-management programs, such
as demand-response (DR), calls for enhanced building energy flexibility. This can be …

Personal comfort systems (PCS) that warm or cool local body parts promise individual
thermal comfort, energy saving and (metabolic) health in non-neutral thermal environments …

Thermal homeostasis is a fundamental process in mammals, which allows the maintenance
of a constant internal body temperature to ensure an efficient function of cells despite …

Recent studies have suggested that thermal and visual comfort are correlated, although the
causality underlying this correlation is unclear. Personal control of correlated color …